Deputy govt spokesman Col. Bantariza succumbs to COVID-19
The Executive Director of the Government Media Centre, Ofwono Opondo, who is also the Government Spokesman, has confirmed that his deputy, Col. Shaban Bantariza, passed on in the wee hours of Tuesday morning of COVID-19 complications from Mulago National Referral Hospital. The Chief of Defence Forces, General David Muhoozi, said that before he retired from the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF), Col. Bantariza served the institution with distinction and he was instrumental in building the information and communication department of the army to what it is today as one of the first army spokespersons under President Yoweri Museveni.